“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
“The best is the enemy of good.”
“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”
“Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
“A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens.”